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Comment on Configure vROps To Send Alerts to OpsGenie and Microsoft Teams by Jon

Jon — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 12:46:10 +0000

In reply to sz. Great info SZ, I just read up on 8.4 (guess I'm a little out of the loop) and it definitely looks a lot more flexible. That said, I'm personally stuck on 8.2 until we upgrade some of our internal applications, but I can't wait until we can use this!

Comment on Configure vROps To Send Alerts to OpsGenie and Microsoft Teams by sz

sz — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 12:38:08 +0000

Hi Jon,

Excellent article, thanks! But since version 8.4, the Rest notification plugin is deprecated and replaced by the Webhook notification plugin, which can be configured as you wish/need.

You can create templates, input properties and much more. You can use the following variables OOTB :

${ENDPOINT_URL}
${CREATE_TIME}
${UPDATE_TIME}
${CANCEL_TIME}
${ALERT_STATUS}
${ALERT_ID}
${ALERT_DEFINITION}
${ALERT_DEFINITION_DESCRIPTION}
${ALERT_RECOMMENDATIONS}
${RESOURCE_NAME}
${RESOURCE_KIND}
${RESOURCE_ID}
${ADAPTER_KIND}
${RESOURCE_KIND_TYPE}
${ALERT_IMPACT}
${CONTROL_STATE}
${ALERT_CRITICALITY}
${ALERT_TYPE}
${ALERT_SUBTYPE}
${OBJECT_HEALTH_STATE}
${OBJECT_RISK_STATE}
${OBJECT_EFFICIENCY_STATE}
${SYMPTOMS}
${ADAPTER_INSTANCE}
${LINK_TO_ALERT}

Hope it helps! Cheers!

Comment on Deploy VCSA via PowerShell by Jon

Jon — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 01:50:31 +0000

In reply to Christoph. Good question Cristoph! I typically use ovftool when I deploy vCenter using ansible, but in this case, I wanted to use the tool that VMware provided, vcsa-deploy.

Comment on Deploy VCSA via PowerShell by Christoph

Christoph — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 13:34:49 +0000

Hi – Great script! Nonetheless I’m pondering a bit why you don’t only extract the ova from the ISOvcsa and deploy using “ovf-tool”. Do you have any specific reason you could share?

Comment on Deploy VCSA via PowerShell by KKrishna

KKrishna — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 15:23:59 +0000

Thanks for your prompt response.
Unfortunately. I’m new to PS and as well Git. But I liked your approach. For me, I’m looking for script that start from place where ISO already extracted. So of now I’m trying to tailor your script.

Comment on Deploy VCSA via PowerShell by Jon Howe

Jon Howe — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 01:06:02 +0000

Hey @KKrishna, thanks for stopping by.

Re: #3 – You’re spot on.. I did use Linux to develop this, but it doesn’t make a difference. Just specify Windows paths to the 7-zip binary and your excel file and the rest should be fine.

For #1, I actually designed this to run without internet access. An example for how to do this is here: https://www.virtjunkie.com/poor-mans-autodeploy/#Web_Server

For #2, love the idea of pulling via FTP. I’d welcome a PR here: https://github.com/jonhowe/Virtjunkie.com/tree/master/VCSA-AutoDeploy

Comment on Deploy VCSA via PowerShell by KKrishna

KKrishna — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 00:41:45 +0000

Interesting. There are few points which I would like to highlight.
1. deploying VCSA using this method where there is no internet to download.
2. Instead internet download, how about specifying alternative intranet locations such as FTP / NAS?
3. The script developed based on linux environment, Windows version would much helpful

Comment on Webex Teams on Linux by Vincent

Vincent — Fri, 07 May 2021 12:36:29 +0000

In reply to beanrod. Unfortunately, the forum ‘improves’ your pasted command line :) Let me try if this can be prevented: ```shell nativefier --name Webex https://web.webex.com/ --internal-urls ".*(okta|cisco|spark|webex).(com|net).*" --single-instance ```

Comment on Webex Teams on Linux by Jim Scully

Jim Scully — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 01:42:21 +0000

In reply to Joe Garcia. I initially had the same thing. However, it was due to my org's SSO. I used the --internal-urls ".*" option and it worked fine.

Comment on Webex Teams on Linux by beanrod

beanrod — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 04:46:12 +0000

nativefier –name ‘Webex’ ‘https://web.webex.com&/#8217; –internal-urls “.*(okta|cisco|spark|webex)\.(com|net).*” –single-instance

heres my version of it allowing for okta 2fa. hoping it ends up in a search engine and helps someone 🙂